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| October 2008 - Issue no. 127 |
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Hello All,
This month I’m drawing your attention to two things. One is a new website called Mutant Space, (www.mutantspace.ie ) a fledgling online arts co-operative that is worth a look - more on this below. The second thing is Arts Ireland itself. You’ve all been rather quiet since we had our brand spanking new format change and I’m wondering what you think. Do let me know at Oonagh@emigrant.ie It’s always good to hear from you!
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FLIM NEWS
New Arts Documentary Scheme For Film Artists
The Arts Council has launched Reel Art , a scheme designed to provide film artists with an opportunity to make highly creative and imaginative documentaries on an artistic theme. Operated in association with Filmbase and the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, Reel Art will support three films with a grant of up to €80,000 per project. Reel Art films will be made for theatrical exhibition and will be premiered at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in February 2010. "Reel Art offers film artists a unique opportunity to make documentary films on the arts that are imaginative and aesthetically driven. It is a scheme for creating art about art and for making films that would not otherwise get made," said Fionnuala Sweeney, Head of Film and International Arts.
Applications should be sent in hardcopy to Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 before 17:00 on, 5 November 2008.
Introductory filmmaking course at Galway Film Centre
This course will provide practical experience with cameras, lights and directing. Students will make a short video piece which will be posted out to them on completion of the course. The course will be held at Galway Film Centre, Cluain Mhuire, and will run for five consecutive Tuesday evenings starting October 7 2008. For further information and booking please contact Mary Deely at: T: 091 770748 E: education@galwayfilmcentre.ie
THEATRE NEWS
First Recipient of Pat Murray Bursary Award
The first ever Pat Murray Bursary for 2008 has been awarded to Deirdre Dwyer. Deirdre has worked extensively in theatre design and production since 1999, in Ireland and abroad, with companies including Meridian, Playgroup and Rough Magic Seeds. Deirdre’s design work for the acclaimed Dark Week at the Everyman in 2005 was nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award. The award will go towards furthering Deirdre’s career through her placement in the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, where she will study Theatre Design. The bursary was created in memory of the gifted theatre designer Pat Murray to facilitate a theatre artist in the furtherance of his or her career through study or special work placement. The award is very generously sponsored by Thomas Crosbie Holdings, Cork City Council and the Everyman Palace Theatre.
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VISUAL ART NEWS
Culturstruction At Open House 2008 (Dublin)
‘Culturstruction’ is a pilot visual arts project by Jo Anne Butler and Tara Kennedy coinciding with the third annual Open House Dublin (October 16-19). Culturstruction features four Irish artists who have produced site-specific work in response to the architecture and spaces of Dublin, with outcomes varying from film to large scale posters, and from non-visual architectural tours to a colouring book. Participating artists include Mary Jo Gilligan, Jesse Jones, Padraic Moore and Eilis McDonald. In addition, Culturstruction Screenings will feature a complimentary selection of recent art films with an architectural relevance, on Meeting House Square, Temple Bar on October 17 and 18 2008.
For full information on artists, sites and times please log onto: www.culturstruction.wordpress.com & www.architecturefoundation.ie
WHAT'S ON ABROAD
The Art of Irish Sound in Liverpool
Do you want to meet some of Ireland's new music makers? See what
they look like and hear how they sound? The Art of Sound exhibition, on
show as part of the Liverpool Irish Festival, offers the opportunity to
do just that. Presented by Ireland's Contemporary Music Centre, the
exhibition will be on display in the Contemporary Urban Centre,
Greenland Street, Liverpool from October 16 to November 9 2008.
This multi-media exhibition looks at new music making from the
first idea through to the final performance. The Art of Sound features
photographer Eugene Langan's dramatic and perceptive photographs of
Irish composers. An audio-guide narrated by Eamonn Lawlor, RTE LyricFM,
brings to life the music that is displayed. Contemporary Urban Centre,
41 - 51 Greenland Street, Liverpool, L1 0BS.
Read more...
We are particularly interested in publishing Irish cultural events taking place over seas please email us your press releases.
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What's
On: Festivals
Children's Book Festival
Now
in its eighteenth year, the Children's Book Festival has established
itself as a major focus for the children's books community in Ireland
and is by far the largest cultural event of its kind in the country.
The event celebrates and encourages reading amongst children and
teenagers. This year's festival has been extended to cover the whole of
October, building from last year's which attracted some 60,000 young
people to over 1500 events.
Baboró!
Welcome
to Baboró’s international playground of colourful characters, mad
musicians, beautiful dancers and opera singing sheep. Experience a
whirlwind of remarkable stories about those moments in life that you
remember forever; stories of extraordinary people, adventure, courage,
hope and love. Make a puppet, design a dress, build a giraffe or do a
bit of hip-hop in Baboró’s You & Me Workshops. This year’s festival
is packed into one marvellous week of imagination, wonder and fun. October 13-19.
Guinness Jazz Festival
Renowned
as Europe's friendliest jazz festival, the event has hosted many of the
'greats' of jazz in its 31-year history. Stars such as Ella Fitzgerald,
Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich, Gerry
Mulligan, Dave Brubeck, Cleo Laine, Joe Zawinul, Wynton Marsalis, Sonny
Rollins, Jan Garbarek, John McLaughlin, McCoy Tyner, Randy Weston, Phil
Woods and lots more have thrilled the festival's audiences over the
years. October 24 – 27.
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Mutant Space: New Online Art Co-Operative
Mutant Space is an online co-operative in which every individual member pools his/her available skills, materials, information and time in order to create a resource that enables the entire membership to play, create and produce arts projects of any kind that would have otherwise been impossible to do due to problems with funding, skills, space, experience, location, etc. They have a skills bank, scrap store, forum, bookshop and information network that includes an events section, blog as well as group accounts with various bookmarking and those social networking websites that are good, useful and fun.
Launch of Cork’s Solar System Trail
In October 2008 Blackrock Castle Observatory in conjunction with ArtTrail and the Cork Astronomy Club will mark Ireland ’s first Solar System Trail with a series of framed banners from Patrick’s Bridge to Blackrock Castle Observatory. Cork’s distance to scale Solar System Trail will launch at 7.30pm on October 5 2008 with an open top bus tour of the Trail featuring RTE Space Correspondent Leo Enright. Leo will provide an up to the minute commentary on solar system activity including the most recent discoveries from the Phoenix Mars Lander for members of Blackrock Castle Observatory. “It’s a project that captures the essence of fostering an appreciation of science and technology in our schoolchildren so that we can continue to produce the high-calibre science graduates for Ireland's knowledge economy and society,” said Minister for Education and Science Batt O'Keeffe.
What's on Ireland
What's on: Theatre
 "The Grandmother", by Monkeyshine Theatre Company at Kid’s Stage in Imaginosity, Dublin Children’s Museum. On October 18 only, from 6.30 – 7.15pm for children aged five -105 years! This warm and funny story is about an unhappy old lady who lives in a lighthouse on a small and far away island. One windy Wednesday a small boat arrives, bringing George, the grandson she never knew she had.
St John’s Theatre and Arts Centre, Listowel, Co. Kerry presents on Tuesday October 21 "The Well of Saints/ The End of the Beginning". Two classic comedies, one dark, one light, the first by J M Synge and the second from the pen of Sean O#Casey. Presented By Big Telly Theatre Co.
Deirdre Kinahan’s lunchtime play "Hue & Cry" returns to Bewley’s Café Theatre, before touring to theatre festivals in Romania and Bulgaria. "Hue & Cry" is a moving and funny play exploring grief and its inevitable fallout. October 20 –31.
Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork hosts the Irish Premiere of "Itsogeng", a new play by Omphile Molusi which won a Scotsman Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Festival. Molusi’s powerful play tells the true story of his hometown whose inhabitants are still awaiting regeneration thirteen years after the advent of democracy.
What's On: Music
 West Cork Music will present a musical night to remember when internationally-acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Liu Fang and the renowned Irish classical guitarist Michael O'Toole perform together in Bantry House on Friday October 10
 Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, County Cork presents An Evening with Brendan And Declan Murphy from The Four Of Us 4 of us. October 11.
 Cork's monthly improvised music event returns on October 9, at the Ó Riada Hall, UCC Department of Music. Stet Lab is an onstage meeting of improvisers, and this month features guitarist Han-earl Park, double bass player Jesse Ronneau, vocalist Veronica Tadman and guests. Stet Lab is a curated jam session, and a forum for improvisers.
What's on: Dance
 At the Firkin Crane, Cork - "Touching Distance" by Legitimate Bodies Dance Company is an exciting and completely new dance work featuring three highly skilled dancers, Christina Goletti, Aine Stapleton and Federica Esposito. Allow this work to take you by surprise, to question why you might want to watch a dance performance. To laugh, to get to know each other, to open up to your feelings and allow them to dance. Saturday October 11.
What's On: Exhibitions
Limerick City Gallery of Art hosts a solo exhibition by Dublin based artist Michael McLoughlin. McLoughlin's process involves connecting with specific groups in society and developing work in audio, film, drawing, photography and sculptural installations. The new body of work references an aging community, for whom Bingo is the primary activity of social engagement.
250 works on paper by more than 80 leading international artists runs at the Irish Museum of Modern Art until October 19. "Order. Desire. Light. An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing" brings together works by such celebrated artists as Francis Alÿs, Dorothy Cross, Tracey Emin, William Kentridge, and Lawrence Weiner, demonstrating the renewed importance which drawing has assumed in contemporary art over the past decade.
St John’s Theatre and Arts Centre, Listowel, Co. Kerry hosts Learning From Art - an exhibition illustrating the work of young people between the ages of five and 18 from the 32 counties of Ireland. The work is inspired by The National Gallery of Ireland’s Collection. Until October 31.
"Treasures of Today" makes its international debut in the Riding School at the National Museum of Ireland. This innovative exhibition by eminent artist and designer silversmiths displays over 120 pieces of silver dating from 1980-2008 appears throughout October.
Draíocht in Blanchardstown shows "Luan an tSléibhe", a major new body of work by well-known Irish artist Geraldine O’Neill. O’Neill’s practice is defined by a commitment to figurative and representational painting. Combining technical brilliance and a personal authenticity this exhibition will have a wide appeal. Until November 22.
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FLIP FLOP
International Children’s Theatre Festival
The 2nd FLIP FLOP Children’s Theatre Festival takes place in Dun
Laoghaire Rathdown. Expanded to seven days, FLIP FLOP is a celebration
of the very best of children’s theatre and this year features a 9ft
Scottish Giant and his uncouth dog, a delightful production of "Hansel
and Gretel" from acclaimed Lyngo Theatre Co. (UK/Italy), and the return
of those dysfunctional storytellers from Theatre Lovett with their
hilarious Fables, Tales & Tattlers. October 20-26
Corona Cork Film Festival
The 53rd Corona Cork Film Festival
provides a platform for some of the world’s most innovative and
exciting filmmakers, as well as a week-long celebration of cinema in
the vibrant setting of Cork city. The festival has earned an
international reputation as a showcase for Irish and international
short film, and 2008 will be no exception. A programme packed with a
diverse and eclectic range of features, documentaries and experimental
works, sidebar events, workshops, discussions, public interviews and
also a range of live music/cinema events.
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